Derry City and Strabane

At a glance

Type

Northern Ireland district council

ONS code

N09000005

Area

1,251 km²

Fire and rescue

Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service

Police

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Emergency planning partnership

Northern Ireland civil contingencies (The Executive Office)

Largest settlements

Derry and Strabane

Council emergency pages

• Council website derrystrabane.com
• Current emergencies and severe weather Derry City & Strabane (derrystrabane.com)

Councils announce rest centres, road closures and emergency help on these pages and their social media. Find your council by postcode (GOV.UK).

Power cuts

Report a power cut to NIE Networks on 03457 643 643 or on its website. The free 105 number covers Great Britain only.

Network operator (not your supplier):

• NIE Networks (Northern Ireland)

Flooding

In Northern Ireland the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) leads on flooding. nidirect gives a single number to report flooding: 0300 2000 100.

Flooding: advice and reporting (nidirect) · Rivers and flooding (DfI)

Flood Maps NI is DfI’s interactive map of the latest government flood hazard information. Open the Flood Maps NI viewer and search for a place (pop-ups must be allowed). We have not counted flood areas for Northern Ireland, so no counts are shown.

Weather warnings

The Met Office issues yellow, amber and red warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorms and extreme heat. Current Met Office warnings (choose Northern Ireland on the map) · What the colours mean

Health: NHS help and the nearest A&E

When your GP surgery is closed and you need urgent medical help that cannot wait, nidirect explains how to contact the GP out of hours service for your area. For a life-threatening emergency, call 999.

The nearest emergency departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):

• Derry: Altnagelvin Area Hospital (2.1 km); Causeway Hospital (44.8 km); South West Acute Hospital (74.2 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex (45.9 km).
• Strabane: Altnagelvin Area Hospital (20.8 km); South West Acute Hospital (53.5 km). Nearest minor injuries unit or urgent care centre: Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex (29.8 km).

For an emergency that is not immediately life-threatening, nidirect says to use the Phone First service in the Northern, Southern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts; see emergency department waiting times (nidirect), which also shows current waits. The Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department, for children, is not counted above.

About this dataset

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.

Water supply

Water company for this area:

• NI Water · Current service updates

NI Water’s Waterline: 03457 440088.

To report no water, low pressure or a burst main, use the company’s page above. Your water bill names your supplier.

What to do when the water goes off

Local risks and emergency planning

• Coast: about 140 km of the council boundary is shoreline at mean high water, by our measurement (this includes tidal estuaries). Coastal flooding and storm surges are possible; the flood areas above include any coastal ones.
• Northern Ireland does not have local resilience forums or community risk registers like Great Britain’s. The equivalent bodies are Emergency Preparedness Groups; details are available from the Civil Contingencies Policy Branch (The Executive Office). Be ready for emergencies (nidirect)

We list only what official sources say. We do not rate how safe or risky anywhere is.

Map

Phone and broadband coverage

Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in Derry City and Strabane, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 78%; from none: 1.2%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 97%; from none: 0.3%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 73%; from none: 3.9%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 95%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 149 (0.2%).

Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · About this dataset

Local radio

BBC Radio Ulster · BBC Radio Foyle

This is the BBC station for the county or area, from the BBC Sounds station list. Coverage overlaps council boundaries, so tune to whichever station you receive.

Census 2021: planning prompts

• Households with no car or van: 24.6%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 16.0%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 10.8%

Who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.

Largest settlements

• Derry
• Strabane

Neighbouring councils

Causeway Coast and Glens, Fermanagh and Omagh, Mid Ulster

Guides for any emergency

• Power cut: NIE Networks 03457 643 643. Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
• Power cuts
• First hour of a power cut
• Flooding
• Flood alerts and warnings
• Storms
• Cold weather
• Grab bag and evacuation
• Emergency Alerts
• A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
• All council pages in Northern Ireland · All UK council pages